Helping your organization stand tall!
Your business, organization, or collective action effort deserves more than a plan—it deserves clear thinking, purposeful language, and support that leads to real, workable action.
Whether you’re in the agriculture, agronomy, food policy, environmental advocacy, or nonprofit sector, recording and sharing your thoughts and ideas can feel complicated and overwhelming. You need thoughtful, practical solutions that work in the real world, and documents and guidance to help your work be understood, supported, and sustained.
In the Northwest Corner, your ideas take shape, your voice is heard, and meaningful change moves forward.
Organizational Support Services
Systems Mapping
Whether you need an internal organizational chart, an information or processes flow chart, a value chain map, or any other larger systems map, mapping helps you and your colleagues find and define your place in the world.
Strategic Facilitation
Step-by-step strategic facilitation creates your roadmap to the future with personalized exercises and guided workshops to take your organization from where you are to where you want to be. Together, we’ll devise a plan that’s uniquely you.
Documentation
Your organization or project deserves ethical, inclusive, and accurate documentation, reporting, and info-sharing. Get the handbooks, poli-pro, and planning documents you need now and guidance for upkeep moving forward.
Grant Review
Finding funding can be a challenge, and an extra pair of eyes can help you optimize your grant applications. Grant review is an excellent way to ensure that you’re fulfilling requirements and rubrics to maximize your funding opportunities.
Advocacy Resources
If you want to change the world, sometimes you need to start close to home. A customized grassroots advocacy plan and experienced guidance helps your organization make civic connections, cut through red tape, and achieve your goals.
Meet Your Consultant
Hi, I’m Mandy Coriston, and I can’t wait to hear all about your organization!
But first, here’s a bit about me:
- I’m a native of Sussex County, New Jersey—a.k.a., the Northwest Corner—where I make my home with my husband, daughter, and a pair of feisty felines who think they rule the roost. (They may be right…)
- I am an accomplished and award-winning educational, instructional, and STEM ghostwriter, copywriter, journalist, and editor, with a focus on food systems, agriculture, horticulture, and environmental stewardship.
- I’m a founding board member of the New Jersey Home Bakers Association, a group that was instrumental in bringing NJ’s cottage food regulations to fruition, helping to grow food entrepreneurship in the Garden State.
- I’m an active member of the New Jersey Food Democracy Collaborative, where I contribute to the Education & Training and Legislative & Policy Working Groups.
- I’m certified by the North American Food Systems Network to facilitate the AgriCluster Resilience & Expansion (ACRE) Strategic Planning Process, as well as train new ACRE Facilitators; I also chair the ACRE Circle as part of NAFSN leadership.
- I also hold two certifications from Rutgers Cooperative Extension: I am an award-winning Volunteer Master Gardener (Class of 2016, Sussex County Golden Trowel Award 2017, State Award for Excellence 2017, and Aurum Insigne 2023) and a Green Infrastructure Champion (Class of 2023).
- I chair my township’s Environmental Commission and serve as liaison on collective action projects between our town’s municipal boards, elementary school, and residents.
- I’m a perpetual learner and experienced leader, facilitator, organizer, researcher, public educator, and advocate for a holistic approach to equity and inclusion in all my endeavors.
You can read more about my background and additional projects on LinkedIn.
But enough about me…tell me about you! Scroll down to get in touch today.
Contact Mandy @ the NWC
Your organization deserves someone in YOUR corner, so let’s chat! Send a message to get started with a free consultation.
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